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It's hard to do a really good sports intro video these days. Seemingly every dramatic song has been used. The same awesome clips have been used over and over. Fans on YouTube get into the act, and there's an increasingly blurry line between awesome amateur videos and awesome professional videos. That's what makes TNT's Christmas Day NBA preview video montage all the more amazing.
The video somehow found a way to splice together current players going against legends like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Oscar Robertson and many more. Normally, you'll get a couple players in a split-screen with legends, but TNT somehow found a way to get the current player actually playing against the legend. That's how you get Russell Westbrook shooting a pull-up jumper over Jerry West as if it was completely normal.
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Was Very well done. Often times this Forest Gump esque videography has been imitated but this is damn near perfect.
Do these effectively hide my thunder?
by splitty on Dec 25, 2011 10:29 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
Wow
What a fantastic job. Almost seems real. Not sure we will ever see a better intro.
Hey Green Bay, where's your WNBA title???
by SDVike on Dec 25, 2011 11:02 PM EST reply actions
Anybody else tear up a bit?
by VenomySnicket on Dec 26, 2011 3:33 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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